It's impossible to move to live to operate at any level without leaving traces bits seemingly meaningless fragments of personal information.

Inventor: A person who makes an ingenious arrangement of wheels levers and springs and believes it civilization.

Telephone n. An invention of the devil which abrogates some of the advantages of making a disagreeable person keep his distance.

I took an acting class. After the first day the teacher quit so they said take another. When I saw 'How to be a Stand-up Comedian ' it resonated. I realized I'd rather make 200 people laugh than make one person cry.

A father is a person who's around participating in a child's life. He's a teacher who helps to guide and shape and mold that young person someone for that young person to talk to to share with their ups and their downs their fears and their concerns.

When you become a parent or a teacher you turn into a manager of this whole system. You become the person controlling the bubble of innocence around a child regulating it.

A good teacher is a determined person.

As a teacher as a propagandist Mr. Shaw is no good at all even in his own generation. But as a personality he is immortal.

The true teacher defends his pupils against his own personal influence. He inspires self-trust. He guides their eyes from himself to the spirit that quickens him. He will have no disciples.

To this end the greatest asset of a school is the personality of the teacher.

Every man who rises above the common level has received two educations: the first from his teachers the second more personal and important from himself.

A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

Only one person in a million becomes enlightened without a teacher's help.

A teacher is a person who never says anything once.

Teaching is the only major occupation of man for which we have not yet developed tools that make an average person capable of competence and performance. In teaching we rely on the 'naturals ' the ones who somehow know how to teach.

What a blind person needs is not a teacher but another self.

Sympathy with nature is part of a good person's religion.

I'm not going to give a courtesy gift to a person who's going to win and I'm not going to give a sympathy gift to a person who's going to lose.

Pity may represent little more than the impersonal concern which prompts the mailing of a check but true sympathy is the personal concern which demands the giving of one's soul.

Only by joy and sorrow does a person know anything about themselves and their destiny. They learn what to do and what to avoid.

Success is the person who year after year reaches the highest limits in his field.

First-person narrators is the way I know how to write a book with the greatest power and chance of artistic success.

The success of Watermark surprised me. I never thought of music as something commercial it was something very personal to me.

I think the success of a talk show depends on how true it is to the personality of the person hosting it. The shows I really admire like 'Oprah' and 'Ellen ' are distinctively like their hosts so I think my show will be successful only if we try to stay consistent to my own sense of myself.